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Roaming around Rome

Capitoline Museums

A cluster of art and archaeological museums that sit atop the Capitoline Hill, around the Campidoglio.

Rione: Campitelli

Nearby places

  1. Capitoline Hill (33 m)
  2. Piazzale Caffarelli (104 m)
  3. Altare della Patria (168 m)
  4. Forum (227 m)
  5. Trajan’s Column (324 m)

The Dying Gaul, in the Capitoline Museums.

Exterior view of the Palazzo dei Conservatori.

Statue of Pope Urban VIII in the Capitoline Museums.

Combattimento tra gli Orazi e Curiazi (“combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii”), Capitoline Museums. The fresco depicts the battle between the triplet warriors the Horatii and the Alban Curiatii, eventually won by Publius, as told by Livy.

The original version of the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, a copy of which stands in the Campidoglio. In the Capitoline Museums.

The iconic she-wolf statue, depicting the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus.